guns are always loaded...gun show

[Wedge]

gun show today

pretty good experience, evil guns were overpriced but not moving at all, I think we've stabilized there for supply and demand.

magazines were going for retail, but in stock so that's better than backordered

friend found a nice war era, non-peened Soviet capture K98 that he had been looking for

However, the scare of the day came when I looked at a revolver at a dealer. He handed it to me, I checked it and it was LOADED! I shudder to think about someone not checking and just pulling the trigger to dry fire it! Fortunately the error was caught, by some miracle no one else had tried to "dry" fire it earlier. I left shortly after that.

Another dealer forgot to put a handgun I looked at back in his case, just left it out and went talking to other people about 30 feet away. We informed him that he forgot one...

Stay safe and watch out for each other.

 

[P90shooter]

Wedge what state do you live in? I know the one's here in Tx all guns are zip tied at the action and are checked before you even enter the show, personal or not, no exception (ok except for LEO's)

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

That's crazy, BUT that is why you always check.

I always check even if I am 110% sure I was the last to handle it, even just a few minutes before. When I pick it up, I check it....that simple.


Its fun anyway!

 

[Boba Fett]

I know the one's here in Tx all guns are zip tied at the action and are checked before you even enter the show, personal or not, no exception

Yeah, never had that happen at a TX show either. And most of the dealer's stuff also has it threaded too...usually with those security/anti-theft wires.

+1 for always checking the gun, no matter what, no exceptions.

 

[Cuda]

A so called dealer handing you a gun and not checking to see if it's loaded. I would have informed the gun show managers and had the idiot kicked out.


C

 

[Bozo]

Here also, every gun is zip tied so the action doesnt work. So if loaded for whatever reason you couldnt drop the hammer. Odd that your state doesnt require that.

 

[Paladin_Hammer]

I wouldn't buy from any dealer like the ones you described. Leaving guns on show and loaded, leaving one just laying around and walking away? Their just asking for a problem. If you can't trust a dealer to abide by the rules of handling a firearm, then you certainly can't trust that their product has any quality attached to it, or service for that matter.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Good on you for checking.

I went in to a local shop the weekend after the election and it was, of course, a zoo. While the fellow helping me was turned around looking for something, he suddenly jumped up and turned around to me. He had his finger outstretched and was about to say something. I had the (empty) magazine in my left hand, and the locked open autoloader in my right hand.

He looked at me, realizing that he had forgotten to check the gun, and I looked back at him, showing it to him, nice and clear.

It's so simple it hurts; follow the rules, and nothing bad will happen.

 

[TAB]

Always, always check.

Working for a FFL... I can't tell you the number of "unloaded" guns I saw... had a few come from the factory with fired casings still in the gun... Henry just released a warning that some of thier guns were shiped loaded.

 

[ultradoc]

Always check. Gun shows in Ohio the gun has to be zip tied. Also, when I am handed a gun I always check to make sure it's unloaded even if I watch the person who handed me the gun checks to make sure it's unloaded. When me and my buds get together and hand each other guns we make sure to unload or check to see if they are unloaded then the person who recieves the gun does the same. Can't be too carefull. And at gun shows it drives me crazy that folks dry fire the gun without asking or point it in an unsafe direction.

 

[Wedge]

Was in Texas and the gun was ziptied up, but it was still loaded. You could see the rounds in the chamber from the front. I'd seen a number of dealers just cut the zip tie off so you could dry fire the gun and just hand it over. I doubt this guy would have found out until it was too late.

I probably should have got him kicked out. He had a couple tables. I have a feeling that whoever was checking the zip ties was just looking to see that a ziptie was on the gun. I saw rifles that just had a zip tie in the trigger guard...Most of the ziptie jobs I saw were pretty lame.